The Day of Dedication - 24-12-2025 Celebration

An incident that happened in Swami Vivekananda’s life during the Christmas Eve of 1892 at Kanyakumari, which took place 133 years ago.

The details of the video link are given below.

Swami Vivekananda's Meditation on "Mother India" at Kanyakumari
Dec 24th to 26th, 1892,

The video 

Antpur is a deeply significant location in the history of the Ramakrishna Order, primarily known as the place where Swami Vivekananda and eight other direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna took their formal vows of sannyasa (renunciation) on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1886.

The Historical Event (Dec 24, 1886)Context: Following the passing of Sri Ramakrishna, his young disciples gathered at the village home of Baburam Ghosh (later Swami Premananda) in Antpur to meditate and decide on their future path.
The Vow: On the night of December 24, 1886, they lit a sacred fire (Dhuni) and took vows of absolute renunciation to dedicate their lives to humanity.
Speaker: Swami Vivekananda (then Narendranath Dutta) was the main speaker, inspiring his brother-disciples with the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and urging them to sacrifice everything for the world.
Significance: This event marks the official foundation of the monastic brotherhood that would later form the Ramakrishna Math and Mission.


The nine disciples who took the vows of sannyasa at Antpur were: 

1. Narendranath Dutta (Swami Vivekananda)
2. Baburam Ghosh (Swami Premananda)
3. Sarat Chandra Chakraborty (Swami Saradananda)
4. Sashibhushan Chakraborty (Swami Ramakrishnananda)
5. Tarak Nath Ghoshal (Swami Shivananda)
6. Kaliprasad Chandra (Swami Abhedananda)
7. Nitya Niranjan Ghosh (Swami Niranjanananda)
8. Gangadhar Gangopadhyay (Swami Akhandananda)
9. Sarada Charan Mitra (Swami Trigunatitananda)

CHRIST, THE MESSENGER
By Swami Vivekananda

“He had no other occupation in life, no other thought except that one, that he was a spirit. He was a disembodied, unfettered, unbound spirit. And not only so, but he, with his marvellous vision, had found that every man and woman, whether Jew or Gentile, whether rich or poor, whether saint or sinner, was the embodiment of the same undying spirit as himself. Therefore, the one work his whole life showed was to call upon them to realise their own spiritual nature. Give up, he says, these superstitious dreams that you are low and that you are poor. Think not that you are trampled upon and tyrannised over as if you were slaves, for within you is something that can never be tyrannised over, never be trampled upon, never be troubled, never be killed. You are all Sons of God, immortal spirit. "Know", he declared, "the Kingdom of Heaven is within you." "I and my Father are one." Dare you stand up and say, not only that "I am the Son of God", but I shall also find in my heart of hearts that "I and my Father are one"? That was what Jesus of Nazareth said. He never talks of this world and of this life. He has nothing to do with it, except that he wants to get hold of the world as it is, give it a push and drive it forward and onward until the whole world has reached to the effulgent Light of God, until everyone has realised his spiritual nature, until death is vanished and misery banished.”

(CHRIST, THE MESSENGER lecture
delivered at Los Angeles, California, 1900 by Swami Vivekananda)